Brain Quotes
4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors
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What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the lyrics…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.
— John B. Larson
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I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is.…
— Michael Madsen
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Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to…
— Michael J. Fox
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I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
— Jeff Foxworthy
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When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
— Jeff Foxworthy
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People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody…
— John Frusciante
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
— Joe Frazier
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Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and…
— Anna Friel
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into…
— Robert Frost
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical…
— Howard Gardner
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear…
— Hamlin Garland
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
— Haile Gebrselassie
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If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero.…
— Robin Gibb
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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
— Emma Goldman
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Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can…
— Daniel Goleman
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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
— Michael Gove
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
— Daniel Goleman
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There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
— Daniel Goleman
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Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more…
— Daniel Goleman
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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus…
— Daniel Goleman
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It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that…
— Jane Goodall
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